One of the first suspension bridges in the US, the Brooklyn Bridge was also the longest when it was opened with great fanfare in 1883. It took thirteen years to build, and for several years, its famed neo-Gothic towers were the tallest structures in the Western Hemisphere. Its designer, John Roebling, made it six times as strong as he thought it needed to be. As a result, the Brooklyn Bridge is still working 125 years later. I went down under the bridge on its Manhattan side and photographed a figure walking through one of the tunnels that supports the massive overhead ramp. The afternoon light is golden; its angle full of abstracting power, and the diagonal thrust of the figure’s arm echoes the line of the overhead shadow.